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  2. List of eponymous laws - Wikipedia

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    Benford's law : In many collections of data, a given data point has roughly a 30% chance of starting with the digit 1. Benford's law of controversy: Passion is inversely proportional to the amount of real information available. Bennett's laws are principles in quantum information theory. Named for Charles H. Bennett.

  3. Empirical statistical laws - Wikipedia

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    However, both types of "law" may be considered instances of a scientific law in the field of statistics. What distinguishes an empirical statistical law from a formal statistical theorem is the way these patterns simply appear in natural distributions , without a prior theoretical reasoning about the data.

  4. Benford's law - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 December 2024. Observation that in many real-life datasets, the leading digit is likely to be small For the unrelated adage, see Benford's law of controversy. The distribution of first digits, according to Benford's law. Each bar represents a digit, and the height of the bar is the percentage of ...

  5. List of scientific laws named after people - Wikipedia

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    Benford's law: Mathematics: Frank Benford: Beer–Lambert law: Optics: August Beer, Johann Heinrich Lambert: Bernoulli's principle Bernoulli's equation: Physical sciences: Daniel Bernoulli: Biot–Savart law: Electromagnetics, fluid dynamics: Jean Baptiste Biot and Félix Savart: Birch's law: Geophysics: Francis Birch: Bogoliubov–Born–Green ...

  6. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  7. Growth model - Wikipedia

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    Growth model can refer to: Population dynamics in demography; Economic growth; Solow–Swan model in macroeconomics; Fei-Ranis model of economic growth; Endogenous growth theory; Kaldor's growth model; Harrod-Domar model; W.A Lewis growth model; Rostow's stages of growth

  8. Bradford's law - Wikipedia

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    Bradford's law is a pattern first described by Samuel C. Bradford in 1934 that estimates the exponentially diminishing returns of searching for references in science journals. One formulation is that if journals in a field are sorted by number of articles into three groups, each with about one-third of all articles, then the number of journals ...

  9. Post-growth - Wikipedia

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    Just as there are many ways of living now in a growth-oriented society, a multitude of post growth futures are possible and many ways of living post growth already exist today. What these futures hold in common is a desire to separate good growth from bad, and to develop human potential and happiness within, and in relation to, a physically ...